Here are the best new (to me) bourbons to tiptoe over my tastebuds last year. My editor said I can’t include Barrell Foundation’s late 2023 debut (even though some of these other bourbons came out well before or are just their regular, long-running selves), but I spent the year doling out my sample, so enjoy … Read more
Or at least incorporating that bourbon into your grilling methods. I talked to a bundle of chefs about all they ways they incorporate bourbon into grilled foods and the associated cookout drinks, from marinade to glaze and many points in between…as well as how the smoky grilled foods can come back and contribute to the … Read more
My new Halloween tradition is ranking every Goose Island BCS Stout, but my new Election Day follow-up (and boy did the nation need a collective drink from that one) is getting to be reviewing the Buffalo Trace Antique collection. This year isn’t my favorite of the three that I’ve tried, but that’s not to say … Read more
Let’s take a trip to Kentucky! I did, and there I got a full tour of the grounds of the Maker’s Mark distillery, including their very cool mushroom farm, apiary, and solar fields mowed by free-range sheep. It’s my second distillery tour in the Bluegrass State, and both times I have been so impressed by … Read more
I did not have a good time drinking the Hogsworth bourbon/brandy mixture, but I had an even WORSE time with an editor misunderstanding my writing to think that Raj Bhakta was still with Whistlepig, sending it to print with that in the URL, and then pushing it out to MSN.com and the correction misspelling Bhakta … Read more
